Any reference pics of the P-61B "Moonlight Serenade"?

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Hi guys!

I’d like to get started on my Revell/Monogram P-61 in the markings of “Moonlight Serenade”. I am not, however, sure how reliable the markings are on th einstruction sheet. I know the USAF Museum in Dayton has a P-61C incorrectly wearing the markings of this plane. If they put the wrong markings on the wrong variant, then what else could they have gotten wrong about it?

On the web site for the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, they said that the USAF’s P-61 carries the markings of the “famous” Moonlight Serenade. If it’s so famous, how come I can’t find any pictures of it?

Would anyone out there have any pictures of the real Moonlight Serenade or, at the very least, any pictures of a plane from the 550th NFS that shows how large the green markings were on the wingtips? Same goes for the stripes on the tail. Are they, indeed, horizontal as depicted on the kit’s instruction sheet? Are the stripes supposed to be red and white or were they other colors?

Thanks!

Eric

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Go here:

http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/f/775/3/1#16

Scroll down until you find Midnight Serenade. Click on the images.

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Thank you BlackSheep. I had seen that one before but I was hoping to find actual photographs rather than an artist’s rendition. I wonder where they got their information to create the aircraft profile. What did THEY use as a reference? I’ve always heard people say not to trust artists’ profiles since it’s not all that uncommon for them to be wrong.

Eric

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Look at enough “profiles” and you’ll find differences between them…from markings placement, colors/shades, camo patterns…I’ve seem as many as 4 of the “same plane”…aside from the main markings, all 4 were quite different.